Alex Pardee continues his Monster Season series exclusively for Loot Fright with the new Oscar & the Lycanthrope PVC art toy figure (4.75″). The third figure in the series features a seemingly ordinary butcher (minus his blue complexion) with a gnarly werewolf —or a ‘lycan-throat’ in Pardee’s words—emerging from deep within his body. Talk about the ‘beast within’.
Pardee’s latest gnarly creation is available exclusively with the July Loot Fright crate titled Insides Out. In addition to the new Monster Season figure, the crate will feature merch from Get Out, Aliens and more. The Insides Out box is available for preorder from Loot Fright for $34.99 until July 15, 2021 at 9 AM PDT. Oscar & The Lycanthrope follows fellow Monster Season nightmares Krampus (Roasting On An Open Fire, November 2020) and Billy Hare: The Beaster Bunny (Chew Out, March 2021).
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Oscar’s Tale
There’s always been something off about Oscar. The adults in town didn’t really notice, because I guess as an adult you see so much weirdness throughout your life that you eventually learn to look the other way when something seems off. But not us, at least not when we were kids. I was the first to notice it. I was in Oscar’s Meat-Mall with my dad. He was there picking up his weekly lump of pork-shoulder so he could make us his famous tacos for taco-night. Dad got a phone call right when Oscar walked in the back to chop the meat, so he wasn’t paying attention. But I heard it. And I saw it. While hacking up the pork, Oscar first started grunting, then gagging. Then he was talking to himself. I heard it clearly. He said, “Not now, please.” And then gagged some more.
I never told my Dad about that.
A few weeks later, I was riding my bike home after game night at Tommy’s. It was late, but it wasn’t too dark because of the full moon. I always ride past Oscar’s shop on my way home, through the alley behind it, and this time was no different. Except, when I got into the alley, I saw Oscar outside, gagging again. I stopped to ask him if he was ok and he shooed me away frantically. But then I saw his mouth stretch and it looked like it was painful. I tried to help. But then, after some of Oscar’s insides got pushed out of his mouth and plopped on the floor, a creature emerged from Oscar’s throat, and HOWLED. I rode away as quickly as I could. I tried to tell my Dad but he said, “Some people are just eccentric.”
The next morning the newspaper said that two bodies were found with their faces bitten off. I never told anyone else what I saw.
